i5 7500 & 16 GB RAM - enough for plex?
reddit / selfhosted

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iizakill · 2023-12-18 12:03

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I am thinking of buying this for my dedicated home server. I want to
mainly run Plex on it. I only stream it locally for my TV at home.
It's one 4K device streaming, maybe 2 in future.

Is this device capable enough to handle it? Or what specs should I be
looking at?

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jobarr · 2023-12-18 12:07

Yes, 7th gen with hardware transcoding is good depending on your
needs:

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel\_Quick\_Sync\_Video#Hardware\_dec
oding\_and\_encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_V
ideo#Hardware_decoding_and_encoding)

16 GB is fine for a few streams for sure.

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djgizmo · 2023-12-18 12:46

Yes.  Anything 6th gen and above is good enough.  Rocked lower than
that for most things for a decade.

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nikonel · 2023-12-18 12:58

Yes, just make sure to run Plex on top of Linux

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iizakill · 2023-12-18 13:03

That's the plan!!

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iizakill · 2023-12-18 13:04

This is very helpful, ty!!

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hereisjames · 2023-12-18 13:13

16GB is more than enough for Plex and a lot more besides.

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dazchad · 2023-12-18 13:48

My i5 7500 don’t handle 4k h265 playback well (haven’t tried just
transcoding though). 8th gen or newer handles it better. And I haven’t
benchmarked plain h264, which should be less demanding.

As for the price, seems to by pricey. I have a similar system and I
paid 45 for it. Granted, there’s no warranty or anything, and it was
on local marketplace.

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mario24601 · 2023-12-18 16:39

Which Linux?

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ewixy750 · 2023-12-18 17:46

Ubuntu (server) & Debian
They are the go to usually, specially if you don't want to have a
headache

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ItsPwn · 2023-12-18 20:28

Give Synology DSM a try for nas use ,there is inbuilt Plex app

Go to releases for USB image

https://github.com/AuxXxilium/arc

/r/xpenology

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mario24601 · 2023-12-18 22:04

Thanks, trying to learn how to use ubuntu server

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ewixy750 · 2023-12-18 23:52

It's just Ubuntu but without the desktop environment

You can try using normal Ubuntu and get familiar with using the
command lines, installing packages with it etc

I still have a laptop used as a server that has Lubuntu for minimal
desktop interface

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cw823 · 2023-12-19 02:55

Bad price for 7th gen